Gwyneth is one of the normal members of the family. The time-travelling gene skipped her and landed on Charlotte instead. Not that Gwen really minds; she's fine having a normal life and watching movies and doing other normal things with her best friend Lesley, instead of taking riding and fencing lessons like Charlotte.
But when Gwen involuntarily time-travels on her sixteenth birthday, her entire eccentric family is startled and horrified to find that Gwen is the Ruby, the twelfth time-traveller. Too bad Gwen was never trained for any of it, and is totally unprepared to deal with time traveling...
Entertainment: ★★★
It was an interesting premise, but it didn't hold my interest all that well. In the end I finished it having liked it but not loved it. I suppose what I didn't like about it was that it was so bland - definitely a vanilla-flavored book, not particularly memorable at all. Which is too bad, given the great premise. So, in the end, I felt neutral about it.
Plot: ★★★
Although I predicted the twist of the ending, it was a unique and entertaining plot. The time-travel element seemed fairly well-thought out and plausible. I only wish that a few more questions had been answered in this first book - there's quite a lot of plot threads left dangling until the sequel.
Characters: ★★★
Gwen was alright, albeit a little bland. Really, none of the characters stood out as particularly good or bad to me.
Writing: ★★★
Fairly well-written, although at times the vocabulary and sentence structure and such seemed kind of immature. But given that the narrator was sixteen, I guess that makes sense. So, it was fairly well-written.
End Result: three stars. A decent book, but not amazingly excellent.
I got the same impression, and I only got through the first couple chapters :( I want to give it the benifit of the doubt - maybe the translation from another language didn't do it justice - but it's still not one I'd recommend in the English version.
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